Commentary for Temurah 54:38

מתני' דלא כר"ש

is not the opinion of R'Meir, for if i were the opinion of R'Meir he holds that a man does not utter words for no purpose.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Where, for example, a man dedicated the value of a child less than one month old, since the man knows that there is no fixed estimation for a child of that age, and so evidently he meant its value as sold in the market, for a person does not make an utterance without meaning something. And here, too, he means the animal he has in his house, or perhaps his intention was a consecration for its value (sh. Mek.) .');">²⁷</span>

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